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# IPM Issue 27 Editor’s Overview

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# IPM Issue 27 Editor’s Overview

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Sharpe, Andrew. 2014. “Editor’s Overview.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 27 (Fall 2014): 1–4. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-27/

## Author:

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Andrew Sharpe
Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

## IPM Issue 27

Fall 2014 pp. 1–4

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The editorial overview for Issue 27 introduces a symposium of five short articles by leading productivity researchers on priorities and directions for future productivity research (based on a closing panel at the IARIW/UNSW Sydney conference), plus four longer articles on the impact of the oil boom on Canadian productivity, intangible assets and Ontario productivity, forest products sector productivity in Canada, and the influence of natural resource inputs on MFP in Australia.

Cet aperçu éditorial pour le numéro 27 présente un symposium de cinq courts articles de chercheurs de premier plan en productivité sur les priorités et les orientations pour les futures recherches en productivité (fondé sur un panel de clôture à la conférence IARIW/UNSW à Sydney), ainsi que quatre articles plus longs sur l’impact du boom pétrolier sur la productivité canadienne, les actifs immatériels et la productivité en Ontario, la productivité du secteur des produits forestiers au Canada et l’influence des intrants en ressources naturelles sur la PMF en Australie.

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